What do you call a person who has invoked their right to be forgotten?
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There’s a gap between
what we think we want and what we actually want. The closure of the National
Philharmonic is a classic case in point.The perfect frosting on Macedon as skiers rejoice over bumpersnow ...
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What If Avoiding the Sun Is Bad for You? Medium
They didn’t control for exercise. Outdoorsy, athletic people are more active: walking, hiking, biking, sports. If there is any connection here, the causality is likely to be the other way: more energetic people are in the sun more. People who use tanning beds almost without exception have a body fetish. When I was very briefly using tanning beds, the salon was full of body builders and other fitness enthusiasts who were exercising to get a body beautiful. In general, people in more temperate parts of the US get more sun. Ditto Europe. If sun exposure were as powerful a factor as this article suggests, you’d see noteworthy variations by region of the US and by profession (like lower rates of heart disease and diabetes among fishermen and ranchers who are in the sun v. office workers).
The diary of Samuel Pepys, from 1660 to 1669, reveals a moral mess of a man living and thriving in a particularly messy time ... Mess
Some research suggests that disclosing deep emotions through writing can boost immune function as well as mood and well-being. Conversely, the stress of holding in strong feelings can ratchet up blood pressure and heart rate, and increase muscle tension.
Deeply troubling situations, such as suicide or a violent death, are best explored with the help of an experienced therapist. You might want to seek professional support to help you start to deal with your grief before trying journal writing. If you'd like to try keeping a journal to help you process feelings of grief, keep these things in mind
Some research suggests that disclosing deep emotions through writing
Most Wikipedia Profiles Are of Men. This Scientist Is Changing That.
WE’RE HUMAN, THEREFORE WE CREATE: Did Archaeologists Just Find the Oldest Art Ever Made? A New Study Claims Archaic Humans Designed Patterns on Bones in China.
"This is the Dutch scouting tradition known as a 'dropping,' in which groups of children, generally pre-teenagers, are deposited in a forest and expected to find their way back to base."
I admit I like disruptive thinking. This, in the Observer today, is excellent by that standard:
In the light of large fines this week for data mishandling, is this a chance of this?
Brightly Shows How Worker-Owned Cooperatives Can Scale Up Triple Pundit
Is it easier for an Australian actor to make it in the US? | TV WEEK
Vice – Facebook has failed to be fully transparent with data concerning political advertising, so two researchers collected the data themselves.”A team of two researchers has created the most comprehensive visualization of Facebook’s political advertisements. Detailing hundreds of thousands of ads across 34 countries by more than 150 political actors, ad.watch is a new tool aimed at providing transparency to political advertisements on the platform.Three years after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which user data was used to target political ads, someone has finally made a way for ordinary people to learn which political campaign ads are being posted on Facebook all around the world. “With ad.watch, you can explore both country-specific contextual issues and political strategies, as well as broader questions about the power of persuasion that the use of personal data facilitates,” the website notes. “Through our interfaces, you can understand targeting and optimization, compare monetary investment, and trace the timelines of ads.”…”
Google Images now lets you swipe up to open a search result
Venture Beat: “The AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project, which was first announced by Google in 2015, is an open source framework designed to speed up mobile webpages.
Many Animals Can’t Adapt Fast Enough to Climate Change - Wired: “Climate change has thrown our beautifully balanced planet into chaos. As oceans and forests transform and ecosystems go into shock, perhaps a million species teeter on the edge of extinction. But there may still be hope for these organisms. Some will change their behaviors in response to soaring global temperatures; they might, say, reproduce earlier in the year, when it’s cooler. Others may even evolve to cope—perhaps by shrinking, because smaller frames lose heat more quickly.
For the moment, though, scientists have little idea how these adaptations may be playing out. A new paper in Nature Communications, coauthored by more than 60 researchers, aims to bring a measure of clarity. By sifting through 10,000 previous studies, the researchers found that the climatic chaos we’ve sowed may just be too intense. Some species seem to be adapting, yes, but they aren’t doing so fast enough. That spells, in a word, doom…”
Local man accomplishes stand-up paddleboard trip from Duluth to Arctic Ocean Duluth News Tribune
What is it like being a Freemason?
